Lindsay Lohan's crashed Porsche lies on a flatbed tow truck, after it collided with a truck on Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica on June 8. / AP

by Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY

by Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY

Hours after the actress was arrested in Manhattan and charged with assault after she slapped a woman in a bar, the Santa Monica, Calif., city attorney charged the star with three crimes in relation to her June car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway, reports AP.

After the crash, the actress told police her assistant was driving, but detectives determined that was not true. Lohan was behind the wheel of the black Porsche, police said. The three crimes she's charged with are giving false information to a police officer, willfully obstructing or resisting a police officer in the performance of his duty and reckless driving.

In a statement sent to USA TODAY, the Santa Monica Police Department said Lohan's charges come today after further investigation of the June 8 crash.

"During the subsequent investigation, information was developed that Lohan was the driver of the Porsche when the accident occurred," the statement explained.

No date for Lohan's arraignment was announced, but the charges could trigger a probation violation for a 2011 necklace theft case.